Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > It's more than just colors. The whole format changes. > > $ git branch -a > For local: > "%(if)%(HEAD)%(then)%(HEAD) %(color:green)%(refname:short)%(else) > %(refname:short)%(end)" > For remote: > " remotes/%(color:red)%(refname:short)%(color:reset)%(if)%(symref)%(then) > -> %(symref:short)%(end)" I think both versions are not so different. You have %(if) on one format strings that would be disabled by construction on the second. For example, adding %(if)%(HEAD)%(then)%(HEAD) at the start of the format-string for remotes would be a no-op, right? And in case a local branch is a symref, "git branch" displays "-> ..." both for local and for remotes. You just normally don't have local symref branches other than HEAD, but I tried: $ git checkout -b branch $ cat .git/HEAD > .git/refs/heads/symref $ git branch -a * branch master symref -> branch The only remaining difference I see are the "remotes/" prefix and colors. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html